Welcome to
Navy For Moms

This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

Add an Event

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

Format Downloads:

Graduation Info
PDF – 2.7 MB
PNG – 2.3 MB
JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

Latest Activity

B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) commented on Melissa Greenfield's group 'Michigan Moms (and Family)'

4 hours ago

Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

N4M Merchandise

Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.

Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.

Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

Badge

Loading…

Get Badge

ALUMNI OF PIR 10/30/2015 TG 51- 09 Divisions (361-368, and 951)

Information

This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 10/30/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Members: 56
Latest Activity: Dec 1, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 10/30/2015! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP.

CLICK ME

for

N4M's Community Guidelines and OPSEC.

~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.

~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.

~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.

~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:

• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:

• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.

Some Suggestions:

~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.

~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option

~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends"

Discussion Forum

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 10/30/2015 TG 51- 09 Divisions (361-368, and 951) to add comments!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on October 25, 2015 at 2:39am: Address for RTC?

Well, there isn't a good one that takes you to the Gate you enter for PIR So,like CatMom posted, RTC gives you:

3355 Illinois Street, Great Lakes 60088

This is a building on RTC. RTC is big and has lots of buildings;-). The Gate Shack is at the Gate where you enter for PIR and it does not have a "location". I tried pinning it on Google maps but get bad directions. GPS will direct you to Buckley and to turn right onto Ray street for the Ray street entrance, Gage 55. This is incorrect and for personnel only.

The entry Gate is Gate 8 on Ohio.

So, if you are using GPS or just looking at a map continue past Ray Street, East on Buckley and you will soon see RTC on the right hand side. The first street after Ray is Illinois (Gate 6), continue past that to the next street which is Ohio. Here is where you will make a right and continue up the hill to Gate 8.

There will be signage and Navy personnel on Buckley directing folks.

I know that's long...hope it helps.

Here is a map:

Gate 8 (Ohio)is the Red dot to the left of the Buckley Rd arrow.

Gate 6 (Illinois) is a street back ("up" on the map) with the two red dots on it.

If you click (or double click) on the map it will open into another page and should be larger.

Comment by ReneeHum on October 24, 2015 at 9:30pm: My son called his girl friend first they got to talk for 20 minutes, I and up getting less then 1 minute :( But it was nice to hear how happy he was.

Comment by diannep on October 24, 2015 at 8:15pm: Renee: I sent you an email with the info you asked. Just know that once on Buckley, you will see signs directing you to the base. I sent you the same address that CatMom posted below.

Comment by keirstan'smom on October 24, 2015 at 7:40pm: Thank u all I finally got it. I live up on a mountain and don't have Internet sometimes. It's a touch and go thing. Thanks for all the help appreciate it.

Comment by CatMom509 on October 24, 2015 at 6:05pm: Renee6/365,

I found this info from the Boot Camp Moms group:

If you plan to use a GPS to navigate to the base, enter this address: 3355 Illinois Street, Great Lakes, IL 60088.

However, the you enter RTC from the main gate on Buckley Road which is the exit off the freeway. Maybe checkout the address on a map to see the logistics of the location~~

Comment by CatMom509 on October 24, 2015 at 5:58pm: Hi Friends!

     "The Lord is near to all who call on Him,

       to all who call on Him in truth."

                                            Psalm 145:18

Comment by ellen0502 on October 24, 2015 at 11:20am: JayDee, I am not sure about the ROTC uniform, but I would guess he could. I would suggest that he ask his commander,

Comment by ReneeHum on October 24, 2015 at 11:04am: Can someone give me the address & right gate for GRADUATION Thank you

Comment by ReneeHum on October 24, 2015 at 9:46am: Good Morning all

Comment by JayDee659 on October 24, 2015 at 8:43am: Good morning. I'm hoping that some of our experienced ladies can help me with a question. My daughters boyfriend is attending PIR with us. He is an officer is his high school ROTC and it was suggested that he wear his dress blues to PIR. When I said something to my daughter, she said she wasn't sure it was appropriate. His uniform insignia clearly identifies him as NJROTC, not as someone dressing up or impersonating an officer. Thoughts? I certainly don't want to let him make an incorrect or embarrassing decision here.